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The increase in Covid-19 cases in Wels is pushing the city’s contact tracing to the limit of its capacity. From Thursday to Friday, the number of infected people increased from 33 to 90 people. Two clusters in the largest urban retirement home in Neustadt with 24 cases of infection and in a large family with 22 infected people are overloading the system, warns Mayor Andreas Rabl (FPÖ): “Contacts between older people are manageable. We trust the follow-up -Treating their limits. ”Hiring additional staff, infrastructure and language problems would cause difficulties.
- Video: Retirement home in Wels closed due to 24 corona cases
Telephone connections are increasingly scarce
Search employees in the municipal administration work up to 80 hours a week. Additional staff is difficult to find and must first be trained. So far, more than 30 employees from various departments have gathered. Even telephone connections are poor.
Representatives of the district authorities, who noticed the orange color of the traffic light, held a videoconference with the Minister of Health, Rudi Anschober (Greens) on Thursday. Rabl advocated for centralized processing: “Contact tracing is not just a problem in Wels. The district authorities involved are on edge.”
At the Neustadt nursing home, residents of two of the four floors were tested on Friday. “Of those infected, 13 currently have no symptoms and nine only very mild symptoms. The house can only be visited in urgent cases,” explains Deputy Mayor Silvia Huber (SPÖ). Two of the 24 Covid cases are employees. Yesterday’s press conference said the focus of the infection could be limited to floors that have already been tested. The elderly mother of a member of the Wels City Senate is also one of the infected residents.
In the Gmunden district, one of the six orange districts in the country, the numbers are declining slightly. Leopold Schilcher (SP), Mayor of Bad Goisern, which is the worst affected by the coronavirus in Salzkammergut, was able to breathe a sigh of relief yesterday: instead of 36, there were only 30 active cases on Friday evening. The growing number of cases across the country is mainly due to “celebrations and meetings,” said Alois Lanz, captain of the Gmunden district. (fam / Geg)
